#academicfreedom — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #academicfreedom, aggregated by home.social.
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#New blog post by our Academy in Exile Fellow Yerkebulan Sairambay about how digitalisation boosts access to research data in Kazakhstan — but authoritarian governance complicates #fieldwork.
https://discuss-data.net/cs/eescca/section/blog/data-collection-kazakhstan/
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#New blog post by our Academy in Exile Fellow Yerkebulan Sairambay about how digitalisation boosts access to research data in Kazakhstan — but authoritarian governance complicates #fieldwork.
https://discuss-data.net/cs/eescca/section/blog/data-collection-kazakhstan/
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#New blog post by our Academy in Exile Fellow Yerkebulan Sairambay about how digitalisation boosts access to research data in Kazakhstan — but authoritarian governance complicates #fieldwork.
https://discuss-data.net/cs/eescca/section/blog/data-collection-kazakhstan/
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/health/fauci-morens-covid-prosecutions.html
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Come and Take Them, Dan Patrick
https://www.texasobserver.org/dan-patrick-books-come-and-take-them/?goal=0_975e2d1fa1-8a88e46481-34915098&mc_cid=8a88e46481&mc_eid=d576a23207
#USPol #TxLeg #SB13 #DanPatrick #Libraries #SchoolLibraries #Books #BookBan #TexasSchools #Abilene #Texas #AcademicFreedom #KalynGensic #TexasObserver -
"In 2023, 60 per cent of Australians rejected a constitutionally recognised Voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. A body that could only make representations, only on matters concerning the people whose ancestors have been here sixty thousand years.
"Too much, the No campaign shrieked. Division. Privilege. Special treatment.
"Nine months later, Anthony Albanese handed Jillian Segal what the Voice never dreamed of asking for. Not a right to be heard. Power. No election. No parliamentary vote. No hearing. A three year commission reporting personally to the Prime Minister, with a mandate reaching into every campus, newsroom, classroom, gallery, charity, arts contract and visa file in the Commonwealth."Andrew Brown writes: https://michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-state-the-office-australia-never-voted-for/
#academicFreedom #influence #lobbying #policing #silencing #genocideSupport #hasbara #grievability #conflation #confusion #manipulation #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #Australia #RoyalCommission #AusPol #JillianSegal #Segal #AnthonyAlbanese
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Update. "Fired Over Speech, Professors Take Their Employers to Court—and Win."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/academic-freedom/2026/07/30/fired-over-speech-professors-take-their-employers-court"The recent spate of censorship and academic freedom violations is the worst since the McCarthy era, according to one lawyer. But as faculty rack up legal victories, universities may start to think twice before punishing extramural speech."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #Trump #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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Delhi University Protests: Student and Teacher Groups Demand Reversal of Month-Long Ban
Delhi University banned protests for one month from Feb 17, 2026. Student and teacher groups say this stops free speech and want the ban removed.
#DUProtestBan, #DelhiUniversity, #StudentRights, #AcademicFreedom, #DUBacklash
https://newsletter.tf/delhi-university-protest-ban-february-2026-student-teacher-opposition/
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Delhi University Protests: Student and Teacher Groups Demand Reversal of Month-Long Ban
Delhi University banned protests for one month from Feb 17, 2026. Student and teacher groups say this stops free speech and want the ban removed.
#DUProtestBan, #DelhiUniversity, #StudentRights, #AcademicFreedom, #DUBacklash
https://newsletter.tf/delhi-university-protest-ban-february-2026-student-teacher-opposition/
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Delhi University has banned all public meetings and protests for one month, starting February 17, 2026. This ban is longer than previous ones and affects students and teachers.
#DUProtestBan, #DelhiUniversity, #StudentRights, #AcademicFreedom, #DUBacklash
https://newsletter.tf/delhi-university-protest-ban-february-2026-student-teacher-opposition/
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Delhi University has banned all public meetings and protests for one month, starting February 17, 2026. This ban is longer than previous ones and affects students and teachers.
#DUProtestBan, #DelhiUniversity, #StudentRights, #AcademicFreedom, #DUBacklash
https://newsletter.tf/delhi-university-protest-ban-february-2026-student-teacher-opposition/
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Bari Weiss’ Tiny Fake Austin College Sees Mass Staff, Advisor Exodus
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The University of Oklahoma has shown by its actions of late that it is not a legitimate school and that its academic standards are sub-par at best, based upon the #SamanthaFulnecky debacle.
I think it is time to start filing complaints with the accreditation agency for OU, the Higher Learning Commission.
Complaints can be filed here: https://www.hlcommission.org/for-students/file-a-complaint-against-an-institution/
#OU #OUSucks #OUShameOnYou #AcademicFreedom #AcademicStandards #Oklahoma #OK
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"In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China."
Academic freedom is threatened by institutional conflicts of interest. Her research has been reinstated after she said she would take legal action.
[Edit: more background on the topic https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-05-29/chinas-economy-runs-on-uyghur-forced-labour]
#AcademicFreedom #SheffieldHallam #UKresearch #ConflictsOfInterest #UKuniversities #HumanRights #ForcedLabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang #LauraMurphy #UKChinaRelations
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A celebration of the life of Jaroslav Cinatl, not just a cell culture pioneer and visionary, who worked in the lab until the age of 96, but also a moral example, who defended the truth and his findings under great personal sacrifice against #authoritarian #censorship, influence, and control.
#AcademicFreedom #democracy #truth #TruthMatters #totalitarianism #authoriatarianismhttps://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1873-3468.70204
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The #Trump admin has initiated several investigations into #GMU’s #DEI practices, which has led some at the university to worry that Washington could suffer a similar fate to Ryan. At a board meeting early this month, Washington’s supporters worried the school’s governing body — which is made up entirely of appointees by #Republican Gov #GlennYoungkin — could fire the school’s first #Black president. The board instead gave him a state-mandated raise.
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In a proposed resolution agreement, the #Education dept’s Office of *#CivilRights* asked President Gregory Washington to issue an apology to the #GMU community, conduct trainings to ensure #race is not used in any #university policy & revise policies as necessary.
In a statement, Acting Asst Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor alleged Washington implemented “unlawful #DEI policies that intentionally *discriminate* on the basis of race.”
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#Education Dept finds #GeorgeMasonUniversity violated *civil rights* over #DEI policies
The #Trump admin launched investigations into #GMU’s DEI practices this summer, an effort some worried could lead to President Gregory Washington’s ousting.The Education Dept has concluded George Mason University violated Title VI of the #CivilRights act by using race in hiring & promotion, the dept announced Friday.
#law #AcademicFreedom
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/22/george-mason-education-department-dei-civil-rights/ -
At the same time, a proposal making its way through #Congress that would increase #taxes on #university #endowments could cost #Harvard an estimated $850 million a year.
The wider #academic community was shocked at Thursday’s move by the #Trump Admin. In a statement, Sally Kornbluth, president of the #MIT, called it a “grave moment.”
#InternationalStudents #law #immigration #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #BrainDrain #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
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Well done! @ALLEA releases a further statement calling out the continuing attempted Gleichschaltung of US academia.
https://allea.org/portfolio-item/allea-statement-on-continued-attacks-on-academic-freedom/
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"The Pursuit of Truth" only when it conveniently enables us to suppress speech we don't like.
How a Free-Speech University Sidles Up to Orbán’s Strongman Rule
Bari Weiss’s University of Austin, touted as a haven for free academic inquiry, has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary’s speech-suppressing regime
#Education #Politics #FreedomOfSpeech #Academia #AcademicFreedom #UATX #Hungary #Orban
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@Luke_Drury and it seems that #TheRoyalSociety is not a signatory of this declaration and Musk is still a FRS ! All the societies in the #ALLEA should put some pressure on the RS to throw him out, THAT would be a strong sign, much stronger than a declaration. Otherwise the ALLEA should excude the RS from its members, to be coherent with their statement
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/04/elon-musk-science-royal-society-scientific-integrity
#AcademicFreedom
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#Trump demands unprecedented control at #ColumbiaUniversity, alarming scholars and speech groups
By COLLIN BINKLEY and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 7:52 PM EDT, March 14, 2025NEW YORK (AP) — "The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.
"Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its #MiddleEasternStudies, #SouthAsianStudies, and #AfricanStudies Department under 'academic receivership for a minimum of five years.' The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of #antisemitism.
"Across #academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.
"'It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,' said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors [#AAUP]. 'Even during the #McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.'"
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-1921e26f6b5a8585ad5cbda790846324
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #Censorship #DumbingUsDown #Authoritarianism #SilencingDissent #AcademicFreedom #Fascism -
#ColumbiaUniversity Bent Over Backward to Appease #RightWing, #ProIsrael Attacks — And #Trump Still Cut #FederalFunding
Instead of #outrage, the school’s interim president responded to the cuts by vowing to continue its misguided crackdown.
by Natasha Lennard, March 8 2025
"Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on #Gaza.
In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia #GazaSolidarity encampment even began, the university banned its chapters of #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine and #JewishVoiceForPeace. A few hundred students from the groups had had the audacity to walk out from classes and hold a “die-in” protest on campus — some of the most widely celebrated nonviolent protest tactics available."The crackdown was just getting started.
Since then, the university has ordered police raids on campus three times, leading to the arrests of over 100 students. Last week, the school expelled four students, three from #BarnardCollege one from Columbia. Many dozens of students have faced discipline and suspensions for participating in pro-Palestine protests and speech.
"Professors have been slandered before Congress, censured, removed from positions, and reportedly pushed into retirement over their support for Palestine and criticism of Israel. The campus has been essentially locked down for almost a year.
"Again and again, Columbia has shown a willingness to throw #students, #faculty, #FreeSpeech, and academic freedom under the bus in acquiescence to a #RightWing, #ProIsrael narrative that treats support for Palestinians as an affront to Jewish safety.
"For all Columbia’s #appeasement, President Donald Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced last week that it would cancel $400 million in #FederalGrants and contracts to the university.
"'Columbia has worked overtime to appease,' wrote Layla, a student at Columbia’s School of Social Work, who asked to withhold her last name having faced doxxing attacks and harassment from Zionist groups. 'Students are miserable. Campus is a #panopticon. And their funding was still cut.'
"The Trump administration can be expected to use its perverted conception of antisemitism to further its explicit plans to decimate, #corporatize, and #ReWhiten #HigherEducation. The shame here lies with university leaderships — at Columbia and schools nationwide — that have failed to stand up for their purported missions of #CriticalThinking and #AcademicFreedom. Instead, they have put some of their most vulnerable community members, particularly international students and students of color, at risk.
"There is no appeasing a political force like the #TrumpianRight, intent on a program of destruction. And there is no appeasing a nationalist #Zionist worldview that, defying reason, sees #antisemitism in every call for #Palestinian freedom. Columbia is proof of the failure of caving in; the administration has offered up a platter of repression for more than a year and is still slated to lose $400 million."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/08/columbia-trump-funding-gaza-israel/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/jrNva
#Fascism #Appeasement #FreePalestine #Gaza #RightToProtest #Censorship #Fascism #ICE #ACAB #Authoritarianism #USPol #FreeSpeech -
Update. "ALLEA Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States"
https://allea.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/ALLEA-Statement-on-Threats-to-Academic-Freedom.pdf"The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities expresses grave concern over the escalating threats to academic freedom, both in the United States and beyond. Recent developments regarding science and scholarship in the U.S., including executive orders freezing billions in federal research funding and censorship around topics such as climate change and gender, are forcing many U.S. science agencies and research organisations to abruptly suspend normal operations. Such censorship and political suppression of language, research topics, and methodologies—whether through funding restrictions, legislative control, or institutional interference—fundamentally compromise the integrity of scientific and scholarly endeavours not just in the U.S. but around the world due to the global nature of the research ecosystem."
#AcademicFreedom #ALLEA #Censorship #Collaboration #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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Too much is still on X re. #HigherEducation denouncing the #GazaGenocide and the assault on #AcademicFreedom relating to speaking up.
Where are the #MastodonAcademic voices?
#GlasgowUniversity VC has stood up
#UniversityGalway calls for a permanent #CeaseFire
#DavidMiller has won his landmark case
